Projects

The research project provides a critical study of Russian politicized Orthodox theology shaped by the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) in relation to the ideological concept of ‘Russkiy Mir.’ The main objective of the research is to investigate to what extent the recontextualized Russian Orthodoxy, under the spiritual umbrella of the ‘Russian World,’ underpins contemporary state propaganda and to what extent this ...

Nowadays, ideology is considered very significant in a wide range of academic disciplines including cultural studies, linguistics, and translation studies. Ideology and its effect on translation have long become a research focus in the field of translation studies, and the use of ideology in translation is as old as the history of translation itself. ‘The practice of inserting and imbedding translated texts with ...

Fashion is predicated on constant change against a backdrop of order, which consists of the ecologically disastrous consumption and production of apparel. But the climate crisis unsettles this backdrop of order as activists, lawmakers, and consumers demand fashion to become more sustainable. Ideology, which in settled times blends in the background as commonsense to naturalize power, suddenly becomes an explicit meaning system in fashion. ...

This study holds, the English translation of Mao Zedong's poetry is ideological in nature and much of its "deformation" can be explained through an ideological viewpoint. We clarifies the conceptual connotation and boundary of translation ideology, focuses on the role of ideology in translation studies, examines the translation relationship network constructed by ideology from the social and individual ...

For the last few decades, the role of managers in social work has increased in unprecedented ways. It has been argued that they are now at the helm of social work and influence the quality of social work delivery. In doing so, their leadership styles as well as their ideology (i.e. perception on the use of discretion) seems to play a pivotal role. To date, we can gain insight into their
leaderships styles by building on research from ...

The research proposal consists of the application of the new anthropological paradigm to the study of northern European prehistoric hunter-gatherers with specific focus on the relationship between ecology - the reality of the world in which human beings must survive - and ideology - the human cognition and perception of that world. The new anthropological paradigm sees ecology and ideology as dynamic and dialectic entities, whose relationship ...

This project seeks to provide a positive and original contribution to contemporary religio-secular and the wider scholarship surrounding Ricoeur by drawing upon the following aspects of Ricoeur’s philosophy of religion: Firstly, this project will examine Ricoeur’s hermeneutical method and the role that language, culture, and tradition plays in his philosophy of religion. A second area of inquiry will be made into the ...